Quote from: funtotry on October 28, 2014, 09:52:29 PM

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Quote from: coinque on October 26, 2014, 08:46:15 PM

Some time back my computer was hacked and I lost some coins. Reviewing all the evidence, including information from Kaspersky, it seemed likely someone in Russian government law enforcement position might have been involved.

Recently I read the following article on the Intercept
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/24/nsa-official-implicated-potential-conflicts-interest-resigns/
It occured to me that the people who have that sort of power are usually either very clean or very crooked. Historically in offices like that there is an ultracorrupt leadership that employes a layer of squeeky clean people for legitimacy.

So reading the above article do you think there are teams at the NSA who aggressively steal coin wallets?

I would believe that they have more important and valuable things to do with their time like homeland security, now unless they believed you were a terrorist supporting his troops with bitcoin i see no reason why they would take interest and target you or you even make a bleep on their radar... but out of all the gov't agenencies out there they i believe are the sneakiest (you knkow besides the ones that we dont even know exist) anything is possible though

According to Snowden some NSA employees used to swap nudes of women that they'd come across via the mass surveillance, so I see no reason why it couldn't be possible for them to abuse their powers and try steal money or other such things.

Stealing things of value, like the private keys to bitcoin addresses is much more serious then swapping naked pictures. It would also likely take a lot more resources to steal a private key then it would be to swap naked pictures as the employee would likely simply stumble across them while it would likely require an active attack to find a private key

I agree. I would say that there would be much more serious consequences for someone that steals money from "spyees" as this is a serious ethical violation and is generally considered to be theft